Author: Alan Brown

A great deal of Charleston’s appeal likes in its splendid array of antebellum mansions. Before the Civil War, Charleston was the most prosperous city in the South, due in large part to the slave trade. In the late 18th and early...

Built in 1886, the building on 72 Queen Street that now houses one of Charleston’s most popular restaurants was owned by two spinster sisters, Elizabeth and Zoe Saint Amand. Both women were schoolteachers, but they had entirely...

The Unitarian Church in Charleston is the second oldest church on the city peninsula. In 1772, the Society of Dissenters decided that their building on meeting Street was not large enough to accommodate the church’s increasing...

The Garden Street Theater is a remnant of a by-gone era. When it opened on January 14, 1918, patrons eager to view vaudeville acts and the latest silent movies paraded into a garden of hanging baskets, trellises, and caged...

The Embassy Suites Hotel is one of the few hotels in the entire world that is housed inside a local landmark. The structure on this site was a fort, built in 1758 to protect the city. Charleston sold the fort to the State of...